$80M worth Nick Saban makes his feelings known on spending Thanksgiving with wife Miss Terry and more

For former Alabama coach Nick Saban, this year's Thanksgiving will be different. Saban, whose net worth is $80 million (according to celebritynetworth.com), has spent many Thanksgivings surrounded by players of teams he has coached.

But now that he has retired, he does not have to do this. Saban spoke about spending Thanksgiving with family on Wednesday's edition of The Pat McAfee Show.

"This will be the first time in a long time that we do not have 25 players over for Thanksgiving, which I always enjoyed it was a great experience to spend time with players in a non football atmosphere," he said. "We're looking forward to just having family."

Saban can spend time with his family and those close to him without having to worry about an upcoming game (which was usually the Iron Bowl against Auburn).

Thanksgiving is a time when families come together and show gratitude for what they have. In 2021, Saban spoke about the holiday in general with On3.com.

"I think this is a time of year when we should all have gratitude for all the things we have in our life," Saban said. "Family, friends, relationships, opportunities that we’ve been given that sometimes seem like a burden but yet they’re a blessing."

Nick Saban on Alabama's playoff chances

Saban discussed the state of the Alabama Crimson Tide in the interview with Pat McAfee. Per the latest CFP ranking on Tuesday, Alabama is out of the playoff race after losing badly to the Oklahoma Sooners at the weekend.

Saban told McAfee that Alabama might not make the playoffs with this defeat.

"It's hard to reward a team with three losses," he said. "Especially the kind of losses Ole Miss had and like Alabama's had, to pretty .500 teams, I call them. Pretty average teams. Where you got some teams where maybe they didn't play the same competition.

But, they didn't lose games to average teams either. So I think that matters."

The Crimson Tide have lost to Vanderbilt, Oklahoma and Tennessee this season. Vanderbilt and Oklahoma fall into the "average team" class that Saban described.

These are teams that they should be able to win against, and the defeats will come back to bite them when the committee meets in two weeks to decide which 12 teams will make the College Football Playoff.